You'll need wood people and a clutch of silk daisy flowers (as many flowers as you have people). When you pull the flowers apart you'll be left with a green base (this will be the hat) the petals (they will be the wings) and then centers which we saved for some other future project.

We started out by making a tracing piece that fit the fairy bodies as their skirts. I hadn't traced with Hettie in a while and was surprised to see how good she has gotten at it.

Cut the dresses out.

Add the faces with a fine point Sharpie. I knew my perfectionist child would likely struggle with this so we did some dry runs on paper first by tracing the bodies and adding faces. When it was time to draw directly on the bodies, I held the green flower bases that were going to be their hats while Hettie drew so she put the faces in the right place.

Spread glue over the fairies' bodies and wrap dresses around them. We secured them with binder clips and rubber bands while they dried.

Glue on the hats and let everything dry.

Paint watered down white glue all over the fairies' dresses and sprinkle them with glitter.

Let them set a bit.

Cut the petal pieces in half. We tried to glue these on with white glue, but in the end a glue gun was in order. We cut a length of embroidery floss and glued it and the petals to the back of each fairy.

The weight of the fairy heads made the ornaments tip forward when they hang. This was remedied by hot gluing the thread to the back of the fairy's head which adjusted the center of gravity perfectly.

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my daughter did this swap too. it was her first. she is thrilled to be swapping like mommy! ;) we are in the anxiously awaiting packages stage now. so fun! your sweet ones fairies are adorable!! love the wings and the glitter.